As we strolled by Captain Tom Franklin's table, Franklin was all in on the button with , up against the cutoff's . He was already getting ready to leave.
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Franklin sat back down, looking rather cheerful about his new 14,000 stack. "Yeah, write that on PokerNews," sighed his unfortunate opponent, who was left with mere shrapnel.
We're not sure whether the chips went in on the flop or before it, but either way come the river Kevin O'Connell was up to 30,000 and his opponent was storming off in disgust.
Matt Hawrilenko is looking to finish the day on a high note. We walked over to his table just in time to see him arranging a new stack of chips after his bested an all-in opponent's . He's now up to about 37,000 chips.
Not too long ago Dan Heimiller was down to about 12,000 chips. On a recent trip to his table we saw him with 37,100. Of course, we didn't catch the hands in which he accumulated them, but we are certain it happened.
We arrived just in time to see an all-in player turn over and Jon Turner flip a dominating . Another plyer at the confessed that he had folded pocket nines.
"You folded two of my nines?" said the all-in player. "Thanks for telling me that, man."
Court Harrington just lost a pot with about 30,000 in the middle preflop when he folded to his opponent's 10,000 chip bet on a flop. Despite the loss, with 72,000 chips, Harrington looks to be the chip leader over in the Amazon Room.
We found Yann Brosolo checking the river of a board, a good few chips in the middle of the table. His opponent checked behind, and Brosolo flipped . HIs opponent couldn't beat it and mucked, and Brosolo moved up to 40,000.